Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.
Alan Alda
Thinking is a three-step process.
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Category Archives: Well being
Mindfulness: Speaking clearly, communication in a modern world.
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.
Dhammapada 1:2
Man is not worried about real problems so much as his imagined anxieties about real problems.
Epictetus.
Our thoughts and speech reflect the emotional tone of our lives.
Our speech reflects our thoughts, which are often present as an internal, private dialogue. Our thoughts do not become clear until we give them substance by putting them into words, either as private self talk in our mind, or more publicly when we start to speak, or send a message over social media.
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Only connect.
At the holiday season many of us choose to visit family and friends.
For many this is a time of joy, when we reconnect with our families and remember why we are alive.
For others it is a time of dread when long-standing tensions and difficulties with our relationships are brought to the surface, usually accompanied by alcohol fuelled dys-control.
Quite often we may say things that we did not mean and end up exacerbating the situation, and worsening our relationships, and making ourselves unhappy with a further burden of ill will to carry into the new year.
This is a great shame.
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